Toyota Predicts 5.5% Sales Growth

By

Terry Kosdrosky and

Norihiko Shirouzu

Updated Jan. 17, 2007 4:11 a.m. ET

DEARBORN, Mich. -- Toyota Motor Corp., whose sales in the U.S. rose by 13% last year from 2005, predicts its sales this year will grow another 5.5%, or 140,000 vehicles, to 2.68 million vehicles, with "a vast majority of the growth" coming from the redesigned full-size Tundra pickup truck, according to a senior company executive.

Jim Lentz, executive vice president of Toyota's American sales unit in Torrance, Calif., said that the new Tundra, due to hit dealer showrooms next month, and a greater availability of...